History
Early speaker cable was typically stranded copper wire, insulated with cloth tape, waxed paper or rubber. For portable applications, common lampcord was used, twisted in pairs for mechanical reasons. Cables were often soldered in place at one end. Other terminations were binding posts, terminal strips, and spade lugs for crimp connections. Two-conductor ΒΌ-inch tip-sleeve phone jacks came into use in the 1920s and '30s as convenient terminations.
Some early speaker cable designs featured another pair of wires for rectified direct current to supply electrical power for an electromagnet in the loudspeaker. Essentially all speakers manufactured now use permanent magnets, a practice which displaced field electromagnet speakers in the 1940s and '50s.
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